Director of Resource Development

About the organization

The Neighborhood Developers (TND) is a non-profit community development organization with a mission to create strong neighborhoods enabling community members to secure a stable home, achieve economic mobility, and determine their own future. We build affordable homes, organize community leaders, and, through our CONNECT program, support households to access public benefits, find better jobs, and expand their financial prospects. TND is headquartered in Chelsea, where it has operated since 1978. The organization was invited into Revere in 2010, and since 2018, we are also offering some of our services in Everett. For more information see neighborhooddevelopers.org.

About This Role

The Neighborhood Developers (TND) is hiring a full-time, hybrid Director of Resource Development to lead our fundraising and communications. This is an opportunity to lead a fun and results-oriented team within a creative and successful community-based organization, which doesn’t come around often. Are you enthusiastic about housing justice? Do you believe everyone deserves to have financial stability and a good job? Do you agree that people with lived experience should make the policy decisions that affect them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this position could be for you!

Position Summary

Our Resource Development team of six close colleagues (including the Director) conducts funding research, writes grant proposals, stewards donors, manages our contracts, and leads our communications efforts. It has a strong fundraising track record and has successfully advanced TND’s mission and raised the organization’s profile at the local, regional, state, and national levels.

The Director of Resource Development leads the department, works closely with other senior team leaders, and in close partnership with the Executive Director. We currently submit about 60 proposals per year to foundations, corporate partners, and government agencies, generating about $2.5M annually, and bring in donations and sponsorships of about $350,000 per year. Our work is regularly mentioned in the media.

The Director of Resource Development is a hybrid position giving you the opportunity to work from home, or in the office, if you prefer, and as needed, with occasional in-person meetings and events based out of our beautiful office in Chelsea or in our communities. This is the first time this incredible position at TND is open in over 10 years.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Department Management:

• Responsible for direction, mentoring, evaluation, professional development, and growth of a team of five staff plus volunteers who together deliver the department’s activities.
• Hire and manage consultants to support the department’s work.
• Build and maintain relationships with funders, donors, other community-based organizations, government staff and elected officials, and other stakeholders relevant to TND’s work and mission.
• With input from the Resource Development team and Executive Director, develop and implement annual work plans consistent with the organization’s strategic plan and based on careful review of program and department data.
• As a member of TND’s Senior Team, coordinate strategic directions for the department and the organization.
• Develop an annual department budget and manage to budget.
• Oversee the department’s record-keeping system and ensures quality control of data across fundraising and finance record keeping systems.
• Report to the board about department activities and progress.
• Participate actively in TND’s internal meetings, events, and other activities as requested.

Philanthropy:

• Oversee team activities that research, identify, cultivate, and steward relationships with existing and potential individual, corporate, governmental, and institutional donors and funders in collaboration with team members and the Executive Director.
• Represent TND throughout the fundraising process.
• Write grants and reports, prepare budgets, oversee contract billing, secure gifts, and sell Community Investment Tax Credits.
• Work with program directors, the Data & Learning team, and the Executive Director to share new and existing programs with donors and funders.
• Monitor progress against funded program deliverables; ensure reporting and compliance with grant and contract terms and regulations.
• Keep up to date with best philanthropic practices.

Communications:

• Oversee an external communications plan in conjunction with the TND Communications Manager to advance TND’s mission and to build awareness of and support for the organization at the local, regional, state, and national levels through earned media, social media, the organization’s website, events, and other opportunities.
• Oversee internal communications that ensures all staff can easily stay apprised of, and engaged in, TND’s fundraising and communication activities specifically and organization-wide matters generally.
• Oversee creation of collateral materials including annual impact reports, donor newsletters, real estate project updates, organizational brochures, social media posts, and the organization’s website.

Program Development:

• Support program directors in developing successful and fundable projects, programs, and partnerships.
• Help build trusting relationships with partner organizations that advance the mission of the organizations and the goals of the communities involved.
• Ensure fairness in terms of funding and deliverables in joint funding applications with partner organizations.

Desirable Qualifications:

• A commitment to TND’s mission.
• Experience in the affordable housing and/or community development.
• Five years or more of fundraising, grant writing, program development, and/or communication experience.
• Previous success in securing major grants and donations.
• Experience leading, inspiring, and developing high-performing teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong strategic thinking and planning skills.
• Ability to manage a large volume of activity and to meet deadlines.
• Strong data acumen, comfortable with spreadsheets and databases.
• Strong computer skills.
• Detail-oriented, well organized, and the able to work collaboratively and independently.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to build authentic relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Ability to work across teams and to handle multi-team workflow coordination.
• Familiarity with Massachusetts funders.
• Experience preparing public-sector grants.

TND is committed to bringing members onto our team who are passionate about our mission and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Opportunity Communities (OppCo) provides human resources for TND.